The Office of Personnel Management and the Federal Chief Information Officers Council are working on interagency rotations where graduates of the government’s reskilling academy can hone their new skills, an OPM official said Tuesday.
At a Nextgov event in Virginia, federal executives weighed in on creative practices agencies are adopting to simultaneously recruit a tech-savvy workforce of the future and boost present personnel to stay on top of the evolving technological landscape.
“When we talk about reskilling and upskilling we’ve noticed that many employees become very fearful. So, we are looking now at how do we create a continuous growth mindset,” OPM Principal Deputy Associate Director of Employee Services Veronica Villalobos said on a panel about the workforce. “How do we get employees to expect that their jobs are going to continuously evolve and that, rather than having fear around that, they actually have excitement and see opportunity around it?”
President Trump launched the first federal reskilling academy last November, in an effort to provide government personnel with nontechnical backgrounds hands-on training in cybersecurity, while also addressing the government’s current critical shortage of cyber and tech talent. The first class recently completed training and applications for the second cohort also opened this summer.
Villalobos said OPM is now working to establish a sort of rotational program so that folks who went through the academy can gain new experiences that they need and are required to make use of the skills they learned.
“So you can imagine the vision is they’ll have the three months of training and then they’ll have nine mont ..
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